Python leads. C holds #2; C++ and Java dip as C# nears Java. Lower ranks shuffle — Perl returns, SQL at #10, and Go drops ...

Microsoft's chief .NET Framework language won a beauty contest. What that means, if anything, is another matter. In terms of growth, C# surpassed all other programming languages in a popularity ...

Bjarne Stroustrup first started developing the the C++ language in 1979 at Bell Labs. Back then, it was called “C with Classes,” and it was created as part of an experiment in distributed computing.

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft’s pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces, brackets ...